ELT & Literary Studies Books
Clarendon Press Studies on the Derveni Papyrus
Book SynopsisThe Derveni Papyrus was discovered earlier this century and is the oldest literary papyrus ever found. Studies on the Derveni Papyrus includes a full and reliable translation of the text, a range of articles by leading European and American classicists, and a complete bibliography. This will be the standard reference work on the subject for years to come.Trade ReviewEach of these essays is a notable contribution to our understanding of the papyrus. The volume as a whole marks an important milestone in the rather unfortunate history of the Derveni papyrus. * John A. Palmer, The Classical Review *Performs a great srvice ... It includes the first ever English translation of the whole papyrus ... The essays comprise a useful survey of scholarship on the papyrus. The standard of the contributions is high, and the book will be indispensable for further study. * Times Literary Supplement *Brings the papyrus firmly into mainstream ancient philosophy, to be taken seriously as a fascinating glimpse into the intellectual market-place of the time. * Phronesis *This extremely valuable book is highly recommended for scholars from a number of disciplines. This is the only book (so far) dedicated to the Derveni papyrus; otherwise, articles on the subject are scattered far and wide. For this reason, and because of the crucial importance of the papyrus, I have no hesitation in recommending this book. - Robin Waterfield-Heythrop Journal Vol.40 No.3 July 1999
£117.00
Clarendon Press Frogs
Book SynopsisAmong extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. Sir Kenneth Dover''s edition, with a full introduction and extensive commentary, has been the most comprehensive edition available, drawing together the relevant scholarship that had accumulated on the subject. The general purpose and character of the abridged version remains the same: to provide a helpful guide on a difficult author for students who wish to translate the play, or need to interpret it for performance. In this edition, nothing relevant to the performance of the play on stage has been sacrificed although information on manuscripts and discussion of the history of the text have been pared to a minimum, and arguments on controversial points have been abbreviated. Where relevant, conclusions reached in the original edition have been changed in the light of work done by others since 1993. The inclusion of a vocabulary should reduce thTrade ReviewThe Commentary is admirably suited to being read alongside the text. The MSS are described in an Olympian treatment of the history of the text with a thoroughness not encountered before ... A commentary of characteristic brilliance. * A.M. Bowie, Queen's College, Oxford, The Classical Review, XLV, 2, '95 *
£42.29
Oxford University Press A Commentary on Thucydides Volume I Books I III
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on the eight books of Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC historian of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta. Of the three books covered in this volume, Book I presents Thucydides'' aims in writing the work and the historical background to the war. Books II and III describe the main events of the first five years of the war (431-426) and include Pericles'' funeral oration, the plague of Athens, the revolt of Mytilene, the destruction of Plataea, and civil war in Corcyra. Thucydides intended his work to be `an everlasting possession'' and the continuing importance of his work is undisputed. Simon Hornblower''s commentary, by translating every passage or phrase of Greek commented on, for the first time allows the reader with little or no Greek to appreciate the detail of Thucydides'' thought and subject-matter. It is the first complete commentary written by a single author this century and exploresTrade Reviewfor its attention to detail, its balanced judgements, and its broad scope, this commentary will become a standard work...it is historically authoritative and historiographically penetrating. Readers at all levels have much to learn from this book, and will appreciate its clear and careful discussions of the many literary masterpieces in Thucydides. Classics Journala model for anyone who wants to get to grips with that great historian: detailed scholarship combined with breadth and lucidity, and the Greek translated into English, too. It is the model on which all future commentaries should be based. The Timesan excellent commentary...it is also an interesting guide to how ancient Greek literature and history have been read and interpreted in the generation from 1960 to 1990. Times Literary SupplementA work at the highest scholarly level...it will play an important role in future research Gnomon
£155.00
Clarendon Press The East Face of Helicon
Book SynopsisOver the last sixty years scholars have increasingly become aware of links connecting early Greek poetry with the literatures of the ancient Near East. Martin West's book far surpasses previous studies in comprehensiveness, demonstrating these links with massive and detailed documentation and showing they are much more fundamental and pervasive than has hitherto been acknowledged.Trade ReviewAn impressive and substantial volume ... The book is very readable and OT scholars can learn much from it * Journal for the Study of the Old Testament *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Note on the transcription of oriental languages ; Note on chronologies ; 1. Aegean and Orient ; 2. Ancient Literatures of Western Asia ; 3. Of Heaven and Earth ; 4. Ars Poetica ; 5. A Form of Words ; 6. Hesiod ; 7. The Iliad ; 8. The Odyssey ; 9. Myths and Legends of Heroes ; 10. The Lyric Poets ; 11. Aeschylus ; 12. The Question of Transmission ; Bibliography ; Indexes
£109.25
Clarendon Press Parthenius of Nicaea Extant Works Edited with Introduction and Notes
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of all the extant remains of the important Hellenistic poet and mythographer, Parthenius of Nicaea, reputed to have been Virgil's tutor in Greek and a major literary figure in his own right, and it provides a newly edited text, translation, commentary and contextual study of the whole of Parthenius' extant works, including the poetic fragments and his love stories.Trade ReviewA scholar would have to be preternaturally learnèd to gain little from this book. In subjects as diverse as Greek literary history, Roman elegy, Greek vocabulary and syntax, motifs in story telling, textual criticism and local antiquities - and in other topics too, attentive readers will be amply rewarded. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Lightfoot's thorough work of scholarship deserves a warm welcome. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *The good idea in Lightfoot's huge book is to reunite textual evidence that is usually treated separately, that is, the tantalizing scraps of (predominately) elegiac poetry and the extant prose work, Erotika Pathemata. * Classical World *A splendid and most welcome tome ... We have a valuable edition of a neglected author, worth attention. * Religious Studies Review *
£233.75
Oxford University Press, USA Medical Latin in the Roman Empire Oxford Classical Monographs
Book SynopsisWhat are the possible and preferred means of extending the vocabulary in Latin at the beginning and end of the Roman Empire? This book addresses this question with reference to the language of medicine and so offers the first systematic account of a part of this large, rich, and largely unworked field.Trade ReviewLangslow's work is an important contribution to our understanding of the field. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *This is one of the most thoroughgoing attempts to place Latin lexicological studies on a quantitive basis. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *... an unusual air of intellectual dialogue within the work, and a sense that this area of Latin linguistics has made real progress since the mid-1980s. This book both summarizes this progress and builds on it; it offers a range of new approaches to technical languages, potentially applicable to other branches of Latin and indeed to other languages as well. In doing so, [Langslow] gives a fine example of how classical philology can go on contributing to debate within modern general linguistics. * Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review *Very welcome linguistical study of terminology in Latin medical texts. * Medical History *The author must be praised for combining the tasks of a linguist with those of a classicist. * Medical History *The book and the three indexes included in the appendix will be used as an essential reference tool for future research. * Medical History *
£216.00
Clarendon Press Printed CommonplaceBooks and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Book SynopsisThis text looks at printed commonplace-books and the structuring of Renaissance thought. It should be of interest to scholars and students of Renaissance literature, cultural history, rhetoric, theology and philosophy.Trade Reviewhighly stimulating ... very welcome. ... Moss analyses and compares many books which have barely been mentioned by previous scholars. ... With extraordinary bibliographical thoroughness and exemplary clarity Moss has produced an indispensable survey of the theory and practice of the printed commonplace-book. ... embellished with precious scholarly insights * Peter Mack, University of Warwick, Renaissance Studies, Vol 15, No 1 *she has produced a lively and learned history of Renaissance Europe's primary text-processing tool * Times Literary Supplement *This book provides us at last with a meticulously detailed account of the origins, flowering, and decline of the commonplace-book in early modern Europe. Ann Moss is always sensitive to confessional or pedogogical differences ... Ann Moss offers a generous supply of materials and possible leads which one may follow up according to one's preferences and priorities as a reader of the early modern. Whatever one's perspective ... no one who is seriously interested in early modern culture, the history of pedagogy, or the history of ideas can afford to neglect this major contribution. * Terence Cave, Rhetoria 15.3 *Not just a study of commonplace books but of though (Latin locus, Greek topos, English commonplace), of testimony of quotation, this is a magisterial work. It is impossible to reduce Moss's detailed survey to generalizations. L.E. Maguire. The Yearbook of English Studies 1999.Ann Moss provides a learned historical account of the rise and fall of the Renaissance commonplace book ... Moss has read and analyzed a very large number of original sources from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century ... this is an excellent book: it will become required reading for anyone interested in rhetoric, Latin education, and the broader intellectual world of northern Europe during the Renaissance. * Paul F. Grendler, Renaissance Quarterly *
£164.25
Oxford University Press, USA Mikhail Bakhtin An Aesthetic for Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin''s work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many of the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work and lays the ground for a new, more historically acute sense of his achievement. Through a comprehensive reading of Bakhtin''s work, Hirschkop demonstrates that his discussion of the philosophy of language, literary history, popular-festive culture, and the phenomenology of everyday life revolved around a lifelong search for a new kind of modern ethical culture. A detailed examination of the major works reveals the careful interweaving of philosophical and historical argument which makes Bakhtin at once so compelling and so frustrating a writer. Hirschkop treats Bakhtin not as a metaphysician or a philosopher for the ages, but as a writer inevitably drawn into the historical conflicts produced by a modernizing and democratizing Europe. As a consequence, Bakhtin becomes a more sober but alsoTrade ReviewHirschkop's study excels on numerous levels: meticulous and elegant in execution and style, exhaustively researched, acribically documented, and rigorously argued, it betrays its author's masterful grip of his subject - both biographical-historical and conceptual-philosophical ... has certainly set new critical standards for Bakhtin scholarship to come. * Poetics Today *This is an important and long-awaited book by one of the country's leading experts on Bakhtin and Bakhtinian theory. * Forum for Modern Language Studies *The book is rounded off with an extremely useful and up-to-date bibliography which includes a detailed bibliography of Bakhtin's writings organised according to genre and chronology and also those of his "circle". * Forum for Modern Language Studies *Very illuminating on Bakhtin's relationship with Saussure and linguistics. * The Yearbook of English Studies *Undoubtedly the most reliable and up-to-date biographical excursus on Bakhtin and the Bakhtin circle available in English. * Galin Tihanov, Times Higher Education Supplement *Intellectually vigorous ... subtle and wide-ranging interpretation ... asks several compelling qustions. * Galin Tihanov, Times Higher Education Supplement *
£53.20
Clarendon Press Montaignes Career
Book SynopsisThis book explores the practical world in which the writer and his peers worked, following Montaigne through his various roles as manager, magistrate, diplomat and mayor. The author examines the sources of income available to 16th century writers and their involvement in the financial and editorial aspects of publishing itself.Trade ReviewGeorge Hoffman's work opens up new territory, takes us into the background of book production, and makes us consider the practical conditions in which the essays were written ... This is a thought-provoking book. It plays down religion, war and politics, and projects an essentially local image of Montaigne ... Hoffman raises important general issues about the Essais and about writing. * Margaret M McGowan TLS, 8/10/99 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; Note on Editions and Abbreviations ; Introduction: The Practice of Writing ; 1. Working at Home ; 2. The Company of Secretaries ; 3. Wagering on Publication ; 4. The Art of Proofreading ; 5. The Montaigne Monopoly ; 6. Books and Careers: A Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
£159.38
Clarendon Press An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Book SynopsisThis is a fully revised edition of Roger Beaton''s 1994 introduction to the poetry and fiction published in Greek since national independence in 1821. It is the first full-length study to be devoted to the literature of this period, seen as a whole, and including developments up until the present day. The book highlights those writers and works which have enjoyed critical or popular acclaim, and emphasizes the relationships which link one work with another and with its historical context. It moves from the varying responses to European Romanticism which defined Greek literature in the nineteenth century, culminating in the work of Palamas and Cavafy in the first decades of this century, to the Modernist influenced work of the years from the 1920s to 1945. A post-war reaction against Modernism was followed by growing experimentation, and the book deals in detail with this most productive of periods in modern Greek literature. No knowledge of Greek is assumed, and all quotations are givTrade ReviewA must for all Modern Greek collections of academic and general libraries. * Choice *Table of ContentsHow to Use this Book ; Introduction ; 1. Literature for a New Nation: 1821-1881 ; 2. National Expansion and its Limits: From 'Great Idea' to Aftermath of Disaster: 1881-1928 ; 3. In Search of a New National Identity: 1929-1949 ; 4. The Aftermath of War and Civil War: 1949-1967 ; 5. From Military Dictatorship towards International Integration: 1967-1992 ; 6. Literature and Language: The 'Language Question' ; Guide to Bibliography in English ; Guide to Translations ; References ; Index of Greek Titles ; General Index
£99.00
Oxford University Press Postcolonial Paradoxes in French Caribbean Writing Cesaire Glissant Conde
Book SynopsisThis book is the first major study of French Caribbean literature in light of the concept of postcoloniality. Postcolonial theory debates have developed in the anglophone domain, and have not as yet referred prominently to francophone literature. Jeannie Suk investigates how the literature of Martinique and Guadeloupe provides a kaleidescopic view of the paradoxes at the heart of postcoloniality. Through subtle and provocative readings of Aimé Césaire, Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Baudelaire, Freud, and others, she illuminates how the development of French Caribbean literature and debates about négritude, antillanité, and creolité contribute to theories of in-betweenness and incompleteness central to postcolonial modes. In each chapter, lively and detailed analyses of literary and critical texts reveal connections between key thematic, conceptual, rhetorical, and psychic issues that form the interface of Caribbean and postcolonial concerns. The first part paves theoretical ground, fTrade Review... engages adroitly with the relations between theory, fiction and politics, showing how they have taken quite a distinctive shape in Caribbean culture. * Journal of Romance Studies *... offers an important and original contribution to the study of French Antillean literature ... Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and compellingly argued, it places this literature within the context of deconstructive, poststructuralist thought with ease and sophistication, while offering substantive close-readings of canonical texts that markedly extend our awareness of the subtle workings of these materials. * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *This book is an important addition to the growing field of Caribbean studies, and underlines the truth that much of the most impressive work in this domain is being done in English. * Modern Language Review *Postcolonial Paradoxes should be welcomed as an important contemporary assessment of key figures within Antillean writing. * Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings *Table of ContentsPOSTCOLONIALITY, ALLEGORY, AND THE FRENCH CARIBBEAN ; EPILOGUE ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
£157.50
Oxford University Press Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton
Book SynopsisA comprehensive reassessment of Middleton''s cultural importance, this wide-ranging study examines both the writer''s dramatic and non-dramatic texts to show how he laid bare the complicit interests at work behind assumptions about sex, morality, society, and politics in late feudal culture.Middleton''s importance has long been acknowledged in the modern theatre, but academic criticism still seems distracted by questions regarding his morals and `Puritanism''. Swapan Chakravorty argues again the reductivism of such enquiries, and demonstrates the complexity behind the texts'' disengagement from received ideological premises and gneric formulae. Combining close reading with lively historical analysis, Society and Politics in the Plays of Thomas Middleton reveals Middleton to have been a pioneer of politically self-conscious theatre. Full of insight, this study brings alive the plays'' meanings by engaging with the social, political, and cultural concerns of Middleton''s day.Trade ReviewChakravorty provides superb analyses of the ways in which Middleton consistently inverts traditional motifs, themes, and characters to create new insights. * Sixteenth Century Journal *
£157.50
Clarendon Press The Art of Literary Biography
Book SynopsisIs literary biography widely read for popular, "prurient" reasons, or for "reputable" intellectual reasons? Leading critics and professional biographers here attempt to answer this and other questions by examining the biographies of such authors as Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley and others.Trade Review`sprightly collection of essays' Sunday Times`deftly edited ... the collection as a whole is refreshingly free from the excesses of lit-crit gobbledegook.' Literary Review`excellent book of essays' New Statesman and Society'a most attractive seminar on the art, or craft, of telling the story of story-tellers' existences' Valentine Cunningham, The Observer'the best of these writers highlight what fun biography can be, and so shed light on a fascinating cultural phenomenon' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times'sprightly collection of essays on the art of biography' Anthony Quinn, Sunday Times'in this excellent book of essays 17 important biographers wrestle with their own practice' Kathryn Hughes, New Statesman & Society'contains some excellent essays' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph...excellent book...The Art of Literary Biography offers an intriguing look at variety within the genre. * IsisKeith Peirson Scene Dec. 1995 *it is of eminent appeal not only to academics and students of literature, formal or not, but should be must reading for journalists, essayists, writers and serious readers of all kinds. As a handbook on the theory of writing biographies, it is essential and one of the best books on the subject we have seen to date. * Scene *this collection is notable in general for its cheerful indifference to theory ... There is a widespread awareness that most theoretical approaches do not describe or illuminate what biographers do ... lively collection. * Peter Hollindale, University of York, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLVIII, No. 189, Feb '97 *an agreeable collection of essays ... with contributions from many distinguished practitioners ... This is an excellent collection which forces us to ponder the implications of the word 'art' in its title; for if biography can be so many kinds of art, what identity is it left with itself? * English Studies *
£117.00
Oxford University Press The Oxford Shakespeare The History of King Lear
Book SynopsisBased on the 1608 quarto of "King Lear", this commentary aims to help readers understand the language and dramaturgy of the play, in relation to the theatres in which it was performed.Table of ContentsLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION AND EDITORIAL PROCEDURES; ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES; KING LEAR; THE BALLAD OF KING LEAR; OFFSHOOTS OF KING LEAR; ALTERATIONS TO LINEATION; INDEX
£193.50
Clarendon Press In Solitude for Company W. H. Auden After 1940 Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism 3 Auden Studies
Book SynopsisConcentrating on Auden's post-1940 writings and his letters, essays and lectures, this study demonstrates the scope of his intellect and includes some of his unpublished prose. Leading scholars and literary critics contribute discussions regarding key aspects of the later career of this major poet.
£213.75
Oxford University Press Shakespeare and Ovid
Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive account of the relationship between Shakespeare and his favourite poet, Ovid.Jonathan Bate examines the full range of Shakespeare''s work, identifying Ovid''s presence not only in the narrative poems and pastoral comedies, but also in the Sonnets and mature tragedies. He shows how profoundly creative Ovid''s influence was, from the raped Lavinia''s turning of the pages of the Metamorphoses in Titus Andronicus, and the staging of Pyramus and Thisbe in A Midsummer Night''s Dream, to the reanimation of Hermione''s statue in The Winter''s Tale and Prospero''s renunciation of his magic in The Tempest. The Heroides are shown to have been vital to Shakespeare''s female characters, but it is the Metamorphoses which animate Professor Bate''s book, just as they animated the whole of Shakespeare''s career.This original and elegantly written book reveals Shakespeare as an extraordinarily sophisticated reader of Ovidian myth and as a metamorphic artist as fluid and nTrade ReviewThis fascinating book introduces us to yet another dimension of his genius. It also wipes out the memory of static classroom excerpts and reveals Ovid in his full splendour. * Patrick Leigh Fermor, "Books of the Year", Spectator *Bate is, again and again, brilliant ... This is literary criticism of the highest order. * A. D. Nuttall, London Review of Books *"The clarity and detail of argument, and elegance of style, make this a delightful book ... Bate's work is grounded in a solid historical knowledge of the period ... Bate has produced a fine synoptic treatment, which deserves the widest possible readership." Isabella Wheater, Oxford, Review of English Studies, 1999We have needed and awaited the definitive book on Shakespeare and Ovid for many years now. It is here and it is brilliant ... Literary criticism came in with The Iron Age, but now and then someone comes along and does it so nimbly, profoundly, and movingly, that one may suppose it was an art of The Silver Age, lost in the interim and newly discovered. Jonathan Bate's book is like that. * Charles Whitworth, Cahiers Elisabëthains *
£47.70
Oxford University Press The Force of Poetry
Book SynopsisChristopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding''. Though published indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his writings asks how a poets words reveal the `force of poetry'', that force - in Dr Johnson''s words - `which calls new power into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter''. The poets covered range from John Gower, Marvell, and Milton to Wordsworth, Empson, Stevie Smith, Lowell, and Larkin, and the book contains four wider essays on clichés, lies, misquotations, and American English.Trade ReviewChristopher Ricks is our most distinctive critic...the natural heir to Empson, exciting and fertile. * Blake Morrison, Observer *The richness and variety of these essays is truly remarkable * John Bayley, Listener *
£47.70
Clarendon Press States of Fantasy
Book SynopsisStates of Fantasy is Jacqueline Rose''s much-praised contribution to the current controversy over the limits of English Studies. Arguing for an expansion of the new boundaries of `English'', and for the importance of psychoanalysis to the understanding of our literary and historical lives, Rose looks at Israel/Palestine and South Africa, and their place in the English literary and cultural imagination.Jacqueline Rose''s fundamental question is the place of fantasy in public and private identities, and in these pages she pushes her investigation further into what might at first glance seem unlikely places. In September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed their first peace treaty; in April 1994, South Africa held its first non-racial democratic elections. States of Fantasy persuasively puts the case that nowhere demonstrates more clearly than these two arenas of historic conflict the need for a psychoanalytically informed understanding of historical process. In so doing, this book shows how Trade ReviewJacqueline Rose, with verve, imagination and ingenuity, argues that fantasy is central to modern politics: it is the psychic glue that holds together our social reality. Rose writes with engaging directness. * New Statesman and Society *The governing metaphor in Rose's study, deployed with splendid resourcefulness, is of unconscious histories, buried affiliations, broken and rejoined lines of influence...this is a work intimate with the detail of Israeli politics as it is with Jacques Lacan. Rose is an intellectual of the diaspora who, after a long detour through theory, has turned back to base in order to know the place for the first time, in all of its embracing, excluding the difference. * London Review of Books *It is the great virtue of Jacqueline Rose's new book ... that in it the reader is bracingly confronted with a genuinely innovative and adventurous style of investigating literary texts. Although she writes with in a recognizable psychoanalytic tradition solidly based in Freud, there is no jargon to get past. Rose's argument is both daring and convincing. Above all, I think it is her critical intelligence that impresses one the most. This isn't a mawkish kind of "personal criticism" - autobiographical meanderings through one's soul - but a capably expressed energy that takes her reader through the moral, cultural and psychological experiences that matter most to her. That we, too, feel them as important and consequential is a mark of her achievement. * Times Literary Supplement *a good and important read, politically engaged, personal and intellectual all in one. * Radical Philosophy 84, July/August 1997 *States of Fantasy is a brilliant, stimulating book, which exhibits a refreshing disregard for literary canon ... more provocative is its terminological novelty: the book's title heralds a departure from the more conventional 'culture and identity' approach. * Alasdair Pettinger, New Formations, 30 Winter 96/97 *Table of ContentsPART I. THE CLARENDON LECTURES ; PART II. THE LIMITS OF CULTURE
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Oxford University Press, USA The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Volume 5 19221923 Mansfield Collected Letters Series
Book SynopsisKatherine Mansfield's letters are as finely written as her stories and prized by ordinary readers as much as by literary critics and feminists. The fifth and final volume of this celebrated edition reveals Mansfield's courage, wit, independence, and honesty in the final year of her life.Trade ReviewThis fifth volume of the Collected Letters brings a satisfying completeness * Stephen Barkway, Virginia Woolf Bulletin *Its completion is a triumphant achievement... The editors' labours throughout have been meticulous yet unobtrusive * Trev Broughton, Times Literary Supplement *Top of my wishlist... plangent, wishful and determined even at the end with O'Sullivan's learned and sensitive introduction. * Kirsty Gunn, The Scotsman Books of the Year *...her last year has never appeared as vibrant as in this elegantly produced and unobtrusively edited volume, filled with previously unknown material. * Christopher Hawtree, Telegraph on Saturday *The editors deserve our gratitude for publishing these letters * A. Banerjee, English Studies *Table of ContentsTHE LETTERS
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Clarendon Press Byrons Don Juan and the Don Juan Legend
Book SynopsisPrevious interpretations of Byron's epic poem Don Juan have almost unanimously neglected the context of the Don Juan legend in European literature and culture. This book argues that the Don Juan legend is a vital context for understanding the poems cultural and sexual politics. The argument focuses on such issues as seduction, class sexualities, and popular theatrical forms.Trade ReviewRecently won the British Academy Rose Crawshay prize of £500Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; 1. The Legend of Don Juan ; 2. Byron's Don Juan ; 3. The Political Implications of a Don Juan ; 4. Don Juan and the Female Reader ; 5. The Seduction of Don Juan ; 6. Epilogue: Contemporary Seductions ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Reconstructing Contexts The Aims and Principles
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to justify and theorize old historicism, defining archaeo-historicism as a method by which scholars can reconstruct past context in order to apply it to the interpretation of works and events of that time. If such reconstruction is to be more than wildly impressionistic, it must be grounded in hard evidence handled according to clear rules. In this intriguing and rigorous analysis, Robert Hume identifies legitimate objects for reconstruction and proposes procedures and principles by which such interpretation may be pursued. He then examines the failures of the same method, which works only when adequate evidence can be found. In particular, Hume flatly denies the intellectual legitimacy of literary history as it is commonly practised and attempts to disentangle such history from the practice of historicism. The final chapter is devoted to a cogent discussion of how archaeo-historicism relates to various forms of contemporary theory. Hume offers a profusion of exampleTrade Reviewthis book is rich in experimental examples * Malcolm Kelsall, MLR, 96.2, 2001 *a clear and often humourous writer ... He writes especially well on economic and financial problems, having done extensive research into theatrical accounts, but is just as adept at dealing with aesthetic or biographical questions ... the work is full of insight ... Hume is a generous and good tempered guide who has espoused his principles with admirable clarity. * Andrew Hadfield, TLS, 13/08/99 *Table of ContentsPreface ; Historicism and Archaeo-Historicism ; The Practice of Archaeo-Historicism ; The Limits of Archaeo-Historicism ; Historicism and Theory ; Bibliography ; Index
£136.88
Oxford University Press What is a Woman
Book SynopsisWhat is a woman? And what does it mean to be a feminist today? In her first full-scale engagement with feminist theory since her internationally renowned Sexual/Textual Politics (1985), Toril Moi challenges the dominant trends in contemporary feminist and cultural thought, arguing for a feminism of freedom inspired by Simone de Beauvoir''s The Second Sex. Written in a clear and engaging style What is a Woman? brings together two brand new book-length theoretical interventions, Moi''s work on Freud and Bourdieu, and her studies of desire and knowledge in literature.In the controversial title-essay, Toril Moi radically rethinks current debates about sex, gender, and the body - challenging the commonly held belief that the sex/gender distinction is fundamental to all feminist theory. Moi rejects every attempt to define masculinity and femininity, including efforts to define femininity as that which ''cannot be defined''.In the second new book-length essay, ''I Am a Woman'', Toril Moi rewoTrade ReviewReview from previous edition a treat for weary readers of the outrageously obscure. * Elizabeth Fallaize, TLS *Moi's long-awaited re-entry into the lists of mainstream feminist debate will not be perceived as a reopening of hostilities. Moi shows herself extraordinarily attentive to the work of American feminists....The psychoanalysis of Freud, Lacan and Kristeva has been joined by the sociology of Bordieu, the existentialism of Sartre and Beauvoir and, increasingly, by the ordinary language philosophy of Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell....A bold rehabilitation of the theoretical importance of Beauvoir's feminism....[Issues] an explicit challenge to American feminist orthodoxy. But it is a challenge issued only at the end of a sustained and immensely careful labor of thought. * Modern Language Notes *[Moi is] one of the most astute and lucid critics writing today. What she calls her `attempt to work [her] way out from under post-structuralism, and to see what happens when one goes elsewhere'--a move undertaken in good faith as a feminist and with uncommon critical common sense--points a way forward, both for literary critics and other feminists....[This book] could serve as a lucid introduction to recent theoretical debates, and also as a farewell to them....[Moi proceeds] through careful close readings, sensitive to both historical context and textual nuance....She offers the views of even those she disagrees with with refreshing clarity.' * Women's Review of Books *Table of ContentsPART I: A FEMINISM OF FREEDOM: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR ; PART II: APPROPRIATING THEORY: BOURDIEU AND FREUD ; PART III: DESIRE AND KNOWLEDGE: READING TEXTS OF LOVE
£65.70
Oxford University Press Letters Volume 6 Volume 6 18261834 Oxford Scholarly Classics
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Oxford University Press, USA The Shakespeare First Folio The History of the Book Volume II A New World Census of First Folios 2
Book SynopsisThis major reference book for Shakespeare scholars and bibliographers is the second part of the story of 'the greatest book' in the English language. Listing 228 copies of the First Folio, the Census gives concise descriptions of each, covering condition, special features, provenance, and binding. It traces the search for copies, and much more.Trade Review... here is evidence gathered on a scale that has been accorded to no other book. * Times Literary Supplement *The sheer extent and reach of West's researches, which have seen him in transit across the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Rest of the World not only suggest the excitement of following leads and locating copies, but say more of the hard work and hard travelling that has gone into the production of his book. * The Library *As an exercise in census-making, West's book is exemplary ... As a piece of functional scholarship that will prompt and enable future Shakespearean scholars securely to embark upon this and other projects, West's Census is warmly to be welcomed. * The Library *Review from Volume I: Genuinely monumental ... Through a combination of careful archival research and tireless legwork, West has located 228 copies - a remarkable 70 more than were listed in Sidney Lee's 1902 Census ... This is an essential reference work for Shakespeareans, librarians, book-collectors, and antiquarian book dealers ... a monumental achievement. * Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey *"[A] work of painstaking scholarship that will be the standard reference tool for the field." * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *'(West's) thorough and comprehensive census...provides not only a fresh and reliable work of reference, but also an indispensible tool for future researchers...All future workers in the field will owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. West both for his impressive achievement and for the stimulus to further and different investigations that they will derive from his invaluable books.' Richard Proudfoot, from the Foreword to Volume IIFrom Volume I 'a magisterial study of the posthumous history of a book . . . Dr West's enterprise is comparable in scope to that of the compilers of the Folio itself. . . . his monumental study forms a major contribution to the shelf of volumes essential to the Shakespeare scholar.' * Stanley Wells, Foreword to Volume I *Review from Volume I: An amazing piece of scholarship ... West's study is the first comprehensive study of the book as book and as cultural object. One wonders why we had to wait nearly four centuries for such a study. * Notes and Queries *
£247.50
Oxford University Press The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde Volume III The Picture of Dorian Gray The 1890 and 1891 Texts
Book SynopsisReprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of the famous story, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as separate works. This volume provides readers with a detailed account of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.Trade Review...its editorial treatment is exemplary * Peter Hollindale, The Review of English Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Editorial Introduction ; Bibliographical Description ; Abbreviations and Symbols ; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1890) ; Textual Notes (1890 Edition) ; THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1891) ; Textual Notes (1890 Edition) ; Commentary
£285.75
Clarendon Press The World of John Taylor the WaterPoet 15781653
Book SynopsisJohn Taylor was a prolific and colourful popular writer who gives us a unique picture of England from James I to the civil war through the eyes of a London waterman. This is the first full study of the self-styled `King's Water-Poet' who carved out a pioneering role for himself as a `media celebrity' and became a national institution.Trade ReviewClearly written and tightly organised, it provides a model of sound argument based on an impressive range of reading...this short but thoughtful book makes a distinctive contribution to the social and cultural history of early modern England * Sixteenth Century Journal *Bernard Capp's informative new book analyzes the life and writings of one seventeenth-century "Amphibium," ... Taylor emerges from Capp's lucid, richly detailed study as a man who strove to create an identity for himself by negotiating the divided and distinguished worlds of early modern English society and culture. Literary scholars will be most interested by Capp's account of Taylor's struggle to gain respect as an author. * Marjorie Swann, University of Kansas, Albion, Winter '95 *
£104.50
Oxford University Press Bedes Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Book SynopsisBede''s Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. By the end of the eighth century, copies of it were to be found in many parts of England and on the Continent, some of which are still extant. If it were not for Bede''s History we should know little about the Anglo-Saxon invasion and the beginnings of Christianity in England, and such familiar names as Edwin and Oswald, Cuthbert and Chad, Hilda and Caedmon would be almost forgotten. First published in 1969, Colgrave and Mynors''s edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad, provided a survey of the extant manuscripts, and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer''s invaluable edition. This revised edition takes into account J.M. Wallace-Hadrill''s Bede''s Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1988), enabling the reader to use the two in conj
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Clarendon Press The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second Anonymous Author Oxford Medieval Texts
Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of the twelfth-century Latin epic poem, Historia Vie Hierosolimitane, in an authoritative Oxford Medieval Texts edition, with facing-page text and translation and detailed introduction and notes.Trade Reviewvery welcome ... it makes more easily available the most substantial account of that expedition to have been written in Latin verse ... the text is a reminder that narratvie strategies and authorial preferences have an important bearing on how we are able to retrieve the crusade both as an historical event and as an historiographical phenomenon. The edition is excellently produced and presented, the translation is clear and readable, and the editorial apparatus is full, informative and learned ... Grocock and Siberry are to be congratulated on producing a very good edition. * Marcus Bull, History, January 2000 *This edition and translation of one of the lesser-known narrative sources for the First Crusade, last edited in 1895, is very welcome, not least because it makes more easily available the most substantial account of that expedition to have been written in Latin verse. The edition is excellently produced and presented, the translation is clear and readable, and the editorial apparatus is full, informative and learned... Grocock and Siberry are to be congratulated on producing a very good edition. * Marcus Bull, History Vol.85 No.277 *
£209.25
Clarendon Press Willing and Nothingness Schopenhauer as Nietzsches Educator
Book SynopsisThis text illuminates Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. The eight essays examine Nietzsche's changing conceptions in response to the work of the thinker he called his "great teacher". Also provided is a critical piece Nietzsche wrote about Schopenhauer in 1868.Trade Review...this book teaches us that there is still much more to discover about Nietzsche...and provides new perspectives on his work. * Ruth Abbey, New Nietzsche Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator ; 2. On Knowledge, Truth, and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism ; 3. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Redemption of Life through Art ; 4. Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy for Life ; 5. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temperament and Temporality ; 6. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Honest Atheism, Dishonest Pessimism ; 7. Self and Morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; 8. The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche ; Appendix 1: Friedrich Nietzsche 'On Schopenhauer' ; Appendix 2: Nietzsche's References to Schopenhauer ; Notes on the Contributors ; Bibliography ; Index
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Clarendon Press Stanley Cavell
Book SynopsisStephen Mulhall presents the first full-length philosophical study of the work of Stanley Cavell, best known for his highly influential contributions to the fields of film studies, Shakespearian literary criticism, and the confluence of psychoanalysis and literary theory. It is not properly appreciated that Cavell''s project originated in his interpretation of Austin''s and Wittgenstein''s philosophical interest in the criteria governing ordinary language, and is given unity by an abiding concern with the nature and the varying cultural manifestations of the sceptical impulse in modernity. This book elucidates the essentially philosophical roots and trajectory of Cavell''s work, traces its links with Romanticism and its recent turn towards a species of moral pefectionism associated with Thoreau and Emerson, and concludes with an assessment of its relations to liberal-democratic political theory, Christian religious thought, and feminist literary studies. It will be of interest to anyonTrade ReviewDespite what his book's title might suggest, Stephen Mulhall's thorough explication of Stanley Cavell's philosophy is anything but ordinary. At the outset Mulhall makes it clear that he intends to address Cavell's exceptional formidability, and set himself `not to attempt to do what can and must only be done by Cavell's own prose, but to clear the space that is required for it to do so'....to Mulhall's credit...he has cleared the space for such a return. * Philosophy and Literature *Table of ContentsPART I: PATTERNS, AGREEMENT, AND RATIONALITY ; PART II: CRITERIA, SCEPTICISM, AND ROMANTICISM ; PART III: COMMON THEMES, COMPETING PERSPECTIVES ; PART IV: PHILOSOPHY, PEFECTIONISM, AND RELIGION
£54.15
Oxford University Press The Development of Logic
Book SynopsisThe primary purpose of this book has not been to recount all that past scholars have said about the science, but rather to record the first appearances of those ideas which seem most important in the logic of our own day.
£51.30
Oxford University Press Passion and Action
Book SynopsisPassion and Action explores the place of the emotions in seventeenth-century understandings of the body and mind, and the role they were held to play in reasoning and action. Interest in the passions pervaded all areas of philosophical enquiry, and was central to the theories of many major figures, including Hobbes, Descartes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Pascal, and Locke. Yet little attention has been paid to this topic in studies of early modern thought. Susan James surveys the inheritance of ancient and medieval doctrines about the passions, then shows how these were incorporated into new philosophical theories in the course of the seventeenth century. She examines the relation of the emotions to will, knowledge, understanding, desire, and power, offering fresh analyses and interpretations of a broad range of texts by little-known writers as well as canonical figures, and establishing that a full understanding of these authors must take account of their discussions of our affective life. Trade ReviewWhen philosophers write about the importance of the emotions today, they usually begin by condemning earlier philosophers for separating the emotions from reason (and then all but ignoring them). Nothing could be further from the approach of Susan James ... in this beautifully written study. Her subtle and erudite interpretations of major texts of the seventeenth century show that the passions were at the heart of early modern philosophy ... her recovery of the treatment of the passions and of action in a wealth of authors from Descartes to Locke provides a perspective from which we can free ourselves a little from the unsatisfactory way we view the emotions today, and so enables us to think differently about their proper place in a sound human life. Her study also shows how early modern philosophers were open to and deeply influenced by areas of European culture other than philosophy where the emotions were at centre stage. * James Tully, Common Knowledge *
£47.99
Clarendon Press The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry ABU Nuwas and the Literary Tradition Oxford Oriental Monographs
Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of classical Arabic wine poetry from its origins in the sixth century to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of the ninth century. The focus is on the wine songs of the great Abú Nuwás (d. c.813) whose compositions are analysed within the context of the various related genres of classical Arabic poetry.Trade ReviewIntellectually stimulating and very thorough demonstration of Abu Nuwas's profound dependence on his predecessor's work. * TLS *This work presents the reader with a rigorously critical analysis of an important genre of Arabic poetry ... The presentation of this volume is of the very highest standards ... we must express our gratitude to Kennedy and to the Clarendon Press (and to the Oxford Oriental Monograph series in which this book appears) for providing us with the luxury of such an accomplished and attractive study of one of the Arabic language's most celebrated poets. * Roger Allen, Middle East Journal *
£180.00
Clarendon Press A Short History of Modern Arabic Literature
Book SynopsisA survey of Arabic literature since the mid-19th century, examining the attempts made by Arab authors to define their cultural identity and meet the needs of the modern world by adapting the imported forms of the novel, short story, and drama, as well as their indigenous poetic and prose tradition.Trade ReviewBadawi's work is a good proof that modern Arabic literature has come into its own, and that it is now making a contribution to world literature. Times Higher Education Supplement'A History of Modern Arabic Literature ... breaks new ground and fills a real need. It is organized in a very clear and systematic fashion.' Issa Peters, World Literature Today, Winter 1994 Issue'this relatively compact edition would be ideal for a student home for the holidays' Brian Fannin, The Washington TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction: a new conception of Arabic literature. Part 1 Poetry: Neoclassical and Romantic; the modernists. Part 2 The novel and the short story: the pioneers; Naguib Mahfouz and other Egyptians; other Arab writers and further developments in the short story. Part 3 Drama: early developments; the period of maturity.
£175.50
Oxford University Press An Introduction to Platos Republic
Book SynopsisThis book aims to make the `Republic' accessible and intelligible to those coming to it for the first time, or with little or no philosophical background, but it also contains much of interest to the more advanced student.
£56.04
Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts Robert Frost Selected Poems
Book SynopsisOne of a series designed to provide a new, accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each text includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and context; and suggestions for further reading.
£14.81
Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts John Webster The Duchess of
Book SynopsisEach book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students'' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
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Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts John Donne Selected Poems
Book SynopsisEach book in this established series contains the full and complete text, and is designed to motivate and encourage students who may be writing on these challenging writers for the first time. It contains useful notes to add depth and knowledge to students'' understanding, comments to explain literacy and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
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Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts Christopher Marlowe Doctor
Book SynopsisOne of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.Trade ReviewThis edition is very useful for students studying the text, as it has lots of notes on the play at the back. Also it gives you contextual information about Marlowe and the play at the beginning * 5 star Amazon review *
£14.81
Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts John Milton Paradise Lost
Book SynopsisOne of a series designed to motivate and encourage students who may be working on certain writers for the first time. Each text includes notes to explain literary and historical allusions, tasks to help students explore themes and issues, and suggestions for further reading.
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Oxford University Press AQA AS and A Level English Literature A Student
Book SynopsisThis AQA AS and A Level English Literature A Student Book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the AQA A Level English Literature specification.Structured and written to build on skills students acquired at GCSE, this book helps students to develop the skills needed to succeed in their AQA AS and A Level English Literature exams and coursework.Through a range of source texts, activities and practice exam questions students of all abilities will be able to make clear progress.Whether students are taking AS or A Level AQA English Literature, this resource offers guidance and activities to help all students achieve their potential.Trade ReviewPacked with helpful information about the course and how to approach the examination papers. The section on independent study (coursework) is particularly useful. Recommended. * 5 star Amazon review *
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Oxford University Press AQA English Literature B A Level and AS AQA A
Book SynopsisPlease note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: English LiteratureFirst teaching: 2015First exams: 2017This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A Level English Literature B specification. Structured and written to develop the skills on which students will be assessed in the exams and coursework, students of all abilities, through the source texts, book features and approach, will be able to make clear progress. The book offers students the opportunity to build on skills acquired at GCSE, extending them into their A Level course, ensuring that they are fully prepared for the assessment requirements of the qualifications and that students become successful, independent all-round learners. Building on years of development work on earlier editions, this brand new book includes the latest thinking and research, thus maintaining relevance and instilling confidence. Whether students are taking AS or A
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Oxford University Press AQA English Language and Literature A Level and
Book SynopsisPlease note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A Level Subject: English LanguageFirst teaching: 2015First exams: 2017This book prepares students and teachers for the requirements of the 2015 AQA A Level English Language and Literature specification. Structured and written to develop the skills on which students will be assessed in the exams and coursework, students of all abilities, through the source texts, book features and approach, will be able to make clear progress. The book offers students the opportunity to build on skills acquired at GCSE, extending them into their A Level course, ensuring that they are fully prepared for the assessment requirements of the qualifications and that students become successful, independent all-round learners. Building on years of development work on earlier editions, this brand new book includes the latest thinking and research, thus maintaining relevance and instilling confidence. Whether students are takin
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Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts The Merchants Tale
Book SynopsisOxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Merchant''s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer.
£14.81
Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts The Importance of Being
Book SynopsisOxford Student Texts offer an accessible route into the study of texts for A Level including line-by-line notes, and detailed sections covering key themes, issues and contexts. This edition focuses on The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde.
£14.81
Oxford University Press Oxford School Shakespeare Loves Labours Lost
Book SynopsisOxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Love''s Labour''s Lost is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.Table of ContentsIntroduction About the Play Leading Characters in the Play Synopsis Love's Labour's Lost: commentary Shakespeare's Verse Source, date and Text People in the Play Love's Labour's Lost Shakespeare's Revisions Classwork and Examinations Discussion of Themes and Topics Character Study Activities Critical Appreciation Essays Projects Background Government Religion Education Language Drama Theatre Further Reading William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 List of Shakespeare's Plays
£7.59
Oxford University Press Oxford Student Texts An Ideal Husband
Book SynopsisOne of a series designed to provide an accessible approach to the works of great poets and playwrights. Each title includes general notes on the text; discussion of themes, issues and contexts.
£14.81
Oxford University Press Oxford Literature Companions The Great Gatsby
Book SynopsisEasy to use in the classroom or as a tool for revision, Oxford Literature Companions provide student-friendly analysis of a range of popular A Level set texts. Each book offers a lively, engaging approach to the text, covering characterisation and role, genre, context, language, themes, structure and critical views, whilst also providing a range of varied and in-depth activities to deepen understanding and encourage close work wtih the text. Each book also includes a comprehensive Skills and Practice section, which provides detailed advice on assessment and a bank of exam-style questions and annotated sample student answers. This guide covers The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, is suitable for all exam boards and for the most recent AS/A level specifications.
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